1904 in literature

1904 in literature

The year 1904 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* January - Mark Twain begins dictating his autobiography.
* 16 June - "Bloomsday": the day on which the action of James Joyce's novel "Ulysses" (1922) takes place in Dublin.
* September - Mark Twain purchases a home at 21 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

New books

*L. Frank Baum - "The Marvelous Land of Oz"
*Hall Caine - "The Prodigal Son"
*G. K. Chesterton - "The Napoleon of Notting Hill"
*Joseph Conrad - "Nostromo"
*Alexandre Dumas - "The Wolf Leader"
*Claude Farrère - "Fumée d'opium (Black Opium)"
*John Galsworthy - "The Island Pharisees"
*Frederic Harrison - "Theophano, The Crusade of the Tenth Century"
*Robert Herrick - "The Common Lot"
*Hermann Hesse - "Peter Camenzind"
*William Henry Hudson - "Green Mansions"
*Henry James - "The Golden Bowl"
*M. R. James - "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary"
*Mary Johnston - "Sir Mortimer"
*Jack London - "The Sea-Wolf"
*James Montague - "Ghost Stories"
*Arthur Morrison - "The Green Eye of Goona"
*Luigi Pirandello - "The Late Mattia Pascal"
*Beatrix Potter - "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny"
*Frederick Rolfe - "Hadrian the Seventh"
*Romain Rolland - "Jean-Christophe" (vol. 1)
*May Sinclair - "The Divine Fire"
*Mark Twain - "A Dog's Tale"
*Jules Verne
**"A Drama in Livonia"
**"Master of the World"
*H. G. Wells - "The Food of the Gods"
*Owen Wister
**"A Journey In Search of Christmas"
**"Philosophy 4"
*Stefan Żeromski - "Ashes"

New drama

*Anton Chekov - "The Cherry Orchard"
*Erich Mühsam - "Die Hochstapler (The Con Men)"
*J. M. Barrie - "Peter Pan"
*George Bernard Shaw - "John Bull's Other Island"
*J. M. Synge - "Riders to the Sea
*Octave Mirbeau - "Farces et moralités"
*Frank Wedekind - "Die Büchse der Pandora"

Poetry

*Giovanni Pascoli - "Primi poemetti" and 'Primi conviviali"

Non-fiction

*Ernst Haeckel - "Kunstformen der Natur"
*Thorstein Veblen - "The Theory of Business Enterprise"

Births

*January 22 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer
*January 23 - Louis Zukofsky, modernist poet
*January 31 - John O'Hara, novelist (d. 1970)
*February 1 - S. J. Perelman, humorist, author
*February 4 - MacKinlay Kantor, historian (d. 1977)
*March 26 - Joseph Campbell, author and expert on mythology
*April 27 - Cecil Day-Lewis, poet
*May 6 - Harry Martinson, Swedish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature
*July 13 - Pablo Neruda, poet
*August 4 - Witold Gombrowicz, playwright and novelist (d. 1969)
*November 28 - Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer (d. 1973)
*December 21 - Johannes Edfelt, Swedish poet, translator and critic (d. 1997)
*December 26 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban novelist

Deaths

*January 20 - Hermann Eduard von Holst, historian
*February 8 - Alfred Ainger, biographer and critic
*February 22 - Sir Leslie Stephen, essayist and critic
*April 16 - Samuel Smiles, political journalist
*May 5 - Mór Jókai, Hungarian writer
*June 5 - Olivia Langdon Clemens, wife of Mark Twain
*July 3 - Theodor Herzl, journalist
*July 14 - Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer
*August 22 - Kate Chopin, author
*September 26 - Lafcadio Hearn, author of books about Japan
*November 19 - Hans von Hopfen, poet and novelist

Awards

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre


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